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<title>ACPICA: Cleanup table handler naming conflicts.</title>
<updated>2013-01-11T12:10:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lv Zheng</name>
<email>lv.zheng@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-12T15:29:38+00:00</published>
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This is a cosmetic patch only. Comparison of the resulting binary showed
only line number differences.

This patch does not affect the generation of the Linux binary.
This patch decreases 44 lines of 20121114 divergence.diff.

There are naming conflicts between Linux and ACPICA on table handlers. This
patch cleans up this conflicts to reduce the source code diff between Linux
and ACPICA.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This is a cosmetic patch only. Comparison of the resulting binary showed
only line number differences.

This patch does not affect the generation of the Linux binary.
This patch decreases 44 lines of 20121114 divergence.diff.

There are naming conflicts between Linux and ACPICA on table handlers. This
patch cleans up this conflicts to reduce the source code diff between Linux
and ACPICA.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Harden acpi_table_parse_entries() against BIOS bug</title>
<updated>2012-10-06T19:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fenghua Yu</name>
<email>fenghua.yu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-25T18:11:43+00:00</published>
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Parsing acpi table entries may fall into an infinite loop on a buggy BIOS
which has entry length=0 in acpi table.

Instead of kernel hang with few failure clue which leads to heavy lifting debug
effort, this patch hardens kernel boot by booting into non NUMA mode. The debug
info left in log buffer helps people identify the issue.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Parsing acpi table entries may fall into an infinite loop on a buggy BIOS
which has entry length=0 in acpi table.

Instead of kernel hang with few failure clue which leads to heavy lifting debug
effort, this patch hardens kernel boot by booting into non NUMA mode. The debug
info left in log buffer helps people identify the issue.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot option</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T00:58:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-19T05:09:22+00:00</published>
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acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was
universally deployed and enabled by default in
the major Linux distributions.

At that time, there were a fair number of people who
or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off,
yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading.

Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht"
are accidental, and thus is it possible that it
is doing more harm than good.

In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht.
In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was
universally deployed and enabled by default in
the major Linux distributions.

At that time, there were a fair number of people who
or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off,
yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading.

Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht"
are accidental, and thus is it possible that it
is doing more harm than good.

In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht.
In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: fix "acpi=ht" boot option</title>
<updated>2010-02-18T08:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-16T08:45:45+00:00</published>
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We broke "acpi=ht" in 2.6.32 by disabling MADT parsing
for acpi=disabled.  e5b8fc6ac158f65598f58dba2c0d52ba3b412f52
This also broke systems which invoked acpi=ht via DMI blacklist.

acpi=ht is a really ugly hack,
but restore it for those that still use it.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14886

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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We broke "acpi=ht" in 2.6.32 by disabling MADT parsing
for acpi=disabled.  e5b8fc6ac158f65598f58dba2c0d52ba3b412f52
This also broke systems which invoked acpi=ht via DMI blacklist.

acpi=ht is a really ugly hack,
but restore it for those that still use it.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14886

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: check acpi_disabled in acpi_table_parse() and acpi_table_parse_entries()</title>
<updated>2009-08-28T23:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-08T03:22:58+00:00</published>
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Allow consumers of the acpi_table_parse()/acpi_table_parse_entries() API
to gracefully handle the acpi_disabled=1 case via return value
rather than checking the global flag themselves.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Allow consumers of the acpi_table_parse()/acpi_table_parse_entries() API
to gracefully handle the acpi_disabled=1 case via return value
rather than checking the global flag themselves.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into release</title>
<updated>2009-04-05T06:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-05T06:14:15+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, ACPI: add support for x2apic ACPI extensions</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T00:08:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-30T21:55:30+00:00</published>
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All logical processors with APIC ID values of 255 and greater will have their
APIC reported through Processor X2APIC structure (type-9 entry type) and all
logical processors with APIC ID less than 255 will have their APIC reported
through legacy Processor Local APIC (type-0 entry type) only. This is the
same case even for NMI structure reporting.
    
The Processor X2APIC Affinity structure provides the association between the
X2APIC ID of a logical processor and the proximity domain to which the logical
processor belongs.
    
For OSPM, Procssor IDs outside the 0-254 range are to be declared as Device()
objects in the ACPI namespace.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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All logical processors with APIC ID values of 255 and greater will have their
APIC reported through Processor X2APIC structure (type-9 entry type) and all
logical processors with APIC ID less than 255 will have their APIC reported
through legacy Processor Local APIC (type-0 entry type) only. This is the
same case even for NMI structure reporting.
    
The Processor X2APIC Affinity structure provides the association between the
X2APIC ID of a logical processor and the proximity domain to which the logical
processor belongs.
    
For OSPM, Procssor IDs outside the 0-254 range are to be declared as Device()
objects in the ACPI namespace.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>acpi/x86: introduce __apci_map_table, v4</title>
<updated>2009-02-09T12:35:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
<email>yhlu.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-07T23:39:41+00:00</published>
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to prevent wrongly overwriting fixmap that still want to use.

ACPI used to rely on low mappings being all linearly mapped and
grew a habit: it never really unmapped certain kinds of tables
after use.

This can cause problems - for example the hypothetical case
when some spurious access still references it.

v2: remove prev_map and prev_size in __apci_map_table
v3: let acpi_os_unmap_memory() call early_iounmap too, so remove extral calling to
early_acpi_os_unmap_memory
v4: fix typo in one acpi_get_table_with_size calling

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yhlu.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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to prevent wrongly overwriting fixmap that still want to use.

ACPI used to rely on low mappings being all linearly mapped and
grew a habit: it never really unmapped certain kinds of tables
after use.

This can cause problems - for example the hypothetical case
when some spurious access still references it.

v2: remove prev_map and prev_size in __apci_map_table
v3: let acpi_os_unmap_memory() call early_iounmap too, so remove extral calling to
early_acpi_os_unmap_memory
v4: fix typo in one acpi_get_table_with_size calling

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yhlu.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found</title>
<updated>2009-02-06T19:00:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-06T19:00:56+00:00</published>
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When ACPI is disabled in the BIOS of this VIA C3 box,
it invalidates the RSDP, which Linux notices:

ACPI Error (tbxfroot-0218): A valid RSDP was not found [20080926]

Bug Linux neglected to disable ACPI at that stage,
and later scribbled on smp_found_config:

ACPI: No APIC-table, disabling MPS

But this box doesn't run well in legacy PIC mode,
it needed IOAPIC mode to perform correctly:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/39

So exit ACPI mode cleanly when we first detect
that it is hopeless.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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When ACPI is disabled in the BIOS of this VIA C3 box,
it invalidates the RSDP, which Linux notices:

ACPI Error (tbxfroot-0218): A valid RSDP was not found [20080926]

Bug Linux neglected to disable ACPI at that stage,
and later scribbled on smp_found_config:

ACPI: No APIC-table, disabling MPS

But this box doesn't run well in legacy PIC mode,
it needed IOAPIC mode to perform correctly:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/39

So exit ACPI mode cleanly when we first detect
that it is hopeless.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>acpi: add checking for NULL early param</title>
<updated>2008-08-21T06:45:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyrill Gorcunov</name>
<email>gorcunov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-20T23:41:45+00:00</published>
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The early_param handling function could recieve NULL pointer as argument
in case if user didn't enter parameter value.  So we have to be ready for
a such situation and do check for NULL pointer if needed.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
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The early_param handling function could recieve NULL pointer as argument
in case if user didn't enter parameter value.  So we have to be ready for
a such situation and do check for NULL pointer if needed.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
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